{"id":"HERCUS1992-001","label":"Nukunu wiithanha","people_or_site":"Nukunu","country_current":"Australia","historic_region":"Eastern Spencer Gulf / Port Germein–Mount Remarkable","macroregion":"Oceania / Sahul","local_name":"wiithanha","source_term":"bullroarer","source_language":"Nukunu / English","object_description":"A bullroarer known in Nukunu as wiithanha; in the Nukunu story of Malbunga it is struck against a sandhill and sung to, to call the people together.","function_summary":"In a Nukunu story the ancestor Malbunga struck the sandhill by the salt lake with his wiithanha and sang, mustering the people and calling them all together.","attestation_type":"lexical_attestation","source_key":"hercus_1992_nukunu_wiithanha","source_type":"community_language_portal","source_url":"https://portal.mobilelanguageteam.com.au/lessons/nukunu-wordlist-2/","page_or_plate":"online W-Y wordlist, entry wiithanha","map_confidence":"medium","plot_status":"plot_with_caveat","coordinate_basis":"Representative Nukunu country anchor; no event or object locality recorded.","jade_complex_role":"","blurb":"Nukunu country runs up the eastern shore of Spencer Gulf, from about Port Germein into the southern Flinders Ranges around Mount Remarkable. Out of the knowledge Nukunu people gave Luise Hercus for her 1992 dictionary comes wiithanha: bullroarer. The community wordlist built from that dictionary carries a sound file for the word, so a learner can hear it said rather than only read it. What it was for, the dictionary's own story section tells. Malbunga, having divided the people into those who would stay and those who would go, called them all together by means of his bullroarer: there is a sandhill right by the salt lake, and he struck the sandhill with it and sang, \"The bullroarer hits right against the sandhill.\" He used it like that to muster the people, ready to go.","pull_quote":"wiithanha — bullroarer","pull_quote_translation":"","pull_quote_cite":"Mobile Language Team Nukunu Wordlist, from Hercus, A Nukunu Dictionary, 1992","term_gloss":"wiithanha: Nukunu bullroarer.","cls":"sacred","class_label":"Sacred / spirit","color":"#8A5A2B","is_candidate":false,"flags":[],"f_jade_complex":false,"f_women_taboo":false,"f_women_special":false,"f_snake":false,"sources":[{"citation":"Mobile Language Team Nukunu Wordlist, derived from Luise Hercus, A Nukunu Dictionary, 1992","url":"https://portal.mobilelanguageteam.com.au/lessons/nukunu-wordlist-2/","archive":"https://web.archive.org/web/20260207003048/https://portal.mobilelanguageteam.com.au/lessons/nukunu-wordlist-2/"}],"source_citations":"Mobile Language Team Nukunu Wordlist, derived from Luise Hercus, A Nukunu Dictionary, 1992","source_display":"Mobile Language Team Nukunu Wordlist, derived from Luise Hercus, A Nukunu Dictionary, 1992","date_citation_display":"","object_display":"A bullroarer known in Nukunu as wiithanha; in the Nukunu story of Malbunga it is struck against a sandhill and sung to, to call the people together.","function_display":"In a Nukunu story the ancestor Malbunga struck the sandhill by the salt lake with his wiithanha and sang, mustering the people and calling them all together.","confidence_display":"medium","attestation_label":"lexical attestation","etymology_hedge":"","people_key":"nukunu","display_name":"Nukunu wiithanha","image":{"full":"assets/objects/HOWITT1904-001.jpg","thumb":"assets/objects/HOWITT1904-001_thumb.jpg","alt":"Narrang-ga (Narungga) bull-roarer, both sides.","credit":"A. W. Howitt, The Native Tribes of South-East Australia (1904), Fig. 40","license":"Public domain","source_page":"https://archive.org/details/nativetribesofso00howi","rehosted":true,"representative":true,"caption":"A Narungga bullroarer, both faces, drawn by Howitt (1904)","pool_id":"auto-HOWITT1904-001"},"slug":"hercus1992-001-nukunu"}